Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e06527c6edc4122d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

11.8 KB
MD5: ba03a8a453f22e42e0fc889bf20db6fa SHA-1: 697880052738dc6761d2f9c8f2312cb9c2038ab8 SHA-256: e06527c6edc4122d68dfbd9cba1bbf66973ee7ed817cf0af773b6f5106357bf6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious PDF T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged as malicious by multiple engines, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. Heuristics indicate the presence of an embedded script payload and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities and drop further malware. The ML classifier also returned a very high probability of maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/
    • http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0008.bin
b4d96dff6c68738e7e89c8114ee8c413c289af940e000e2162d1025cd22f5db5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0xC8 11339 bytes